Bernat Martínez Sardà
Who are you as a performer/artist?
I don’t know. And I have a hard time believing those who say they do. I know a lot about who I am: what I stand for, what my preferences are, what my goals are… but when it comes to just who I am I just don’t know what to answer. I feel like I am being asked to boil my whole self down to one cute and marketable sentence, and no sentence is ever precise enough in encompassing everything I feel. Context and details are important to me. So are words, and places, and timings, people, money, love, death, lies, and promises and my hippo plushy, Rocco. No cute and marketable sentence will fit all of me.
Maybe this is who I am as an artist: someone who complains about prompts and who thinks a bit too much of himself.
What are your ambitions?
To hold on to all the growth I’ve already succeeded in, while accepting and working towards growing further. To find a balance that allows me to satisfy both my artistic needs and the capitalistic ones. To find the balance on my right leg. To heal. To learn to be hopeful when there is no plan and not to be desperate when it goes off course. Not to default to fear, but to reasoning. Not to reason too much. To expect everything from myself and to be able to forgive myself as well. To keep growing, even more. To never forget the path I’ve been on and to be able to see the paths opening up in front of me. And to make as much art as I feel like.
Where do you find inspiration?
I find inspiration in everything I experience. There are things, like music, which inspire me far more often than others, but I have learned that there is nothing that doesn’t have a potential to inspire me. Both internally and externally, everything that happens in me, through me, in front of me, to me, has a tendency to circle back and appear in my art, whether I plan on it or not. Everything is of utmost profundity and importance to me; from the way I tie my shoes every morning to the way I lose my breath into my tears when my heart gets shattered.
What did you do at your internship & what did you learn?
This season I’ve been an intern at Skånes Dansteater. There, I’ve danced in several productions, I have participated in a research process, I have taught many different workshops and I have also had the chance to create a dance film. This season I have gained a lot of knowledge about how I function, the things that work for/from me, the things that don’t and the things that require specific contexts. I’ve been able to expand my artistry in ways I never suspected and I have been introduced to a section of the dance world I never knew before. Skånes Dansteater has highly raised the bar on my expectations and hopes for the dance world, and inspired me to keep working for those standards we deserve and should demand. Of especial importance has been to me the fact that I have learned to learn. I have been in the moment, realising the things I was learning as they happened and not as I wrote a reflection two months later. This has proved to be an invaluable skill for me that I now treasure, and I will never be able to thank Skånes Dansteater enough for providing the setting where all of this could happen.
These mountains you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb. - Najwa Zebian
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